mystifiers

JB is doing exactly that - he is using mystical legitimacy, which can only help the mystifiers.

Balkinization 2007

Only mystifiers of one kind or another, promoting wild, irrational negativity, could, he thought, avoid this conclusion.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

Only mystifiers of one kind or another, promoting wild, irrational negativity, could, he thought, avoid this conclusion.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

A little older, a little colder: and already are they mystifiers, and mumblers and mollycoddles.

Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

Goodman watched with mounting embarrassment as the journalist, the physician, the engineer, the architect, and other friends he brought to speak to the class were dismissed as 'liars,' 'finks,' and 'mystifiers.'

Power to the Experts Haskell, Thomas L. 1977

For, of all solemn prank-players, of all mystifiers and magicians, ice is the greatest.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

But few among professional mystifiers will admit this, obviously true as it is.

An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

The worst part of this wicked trick was, that the lady wore hair-powder, and the mystifiers carried umbrellas.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

Spiritists try to explain this by pretending that the spirits are not demons, but the souls of the departed who have retained all their vices; absurd or unbecoming replies are given by deceased persons who are still liars, or libertines, frivolous or mystifiers, etc.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Finally, it is not even necessary to suppose that these messages are due to dishonesty; the number of mystifiers may be at least as great on the other side as on this; a sort of law of affinity which seems to rule the world of spirits may cause these lower beings to be attracted by uncultured mediums, while the great spirits are repelled by them.

Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research Michael Sage 1897